SOPHIA LOREN "I fell in love with Sophia Loren at first sight on the big screen of the cinema in our neighborhood on Lagos Island!. I would have met her in the 1980s if I wanted since I had invitations to #Hollywood. And my song, "Hardway To Broadway" was recorded in Hollywood in 1984 and a copy is in  the Library of Congress in Washington DC. I had Anne Leonard, Lucy and other beautiful and wonderful American women coming to Lagos to supervise my work as a health illustrator. I almost got hitched at 22, but I was just too young for marriage. I was walking on air, so sure of becoming a rock star, but I became born again from being Roman Catholic to a young Pentecostal evangelist. So, I said "Bye, bye Hollywood" and "Welcome to JESUS Christ." My hood queen, Chinwe got married at 18 and Nicole Walter, my beautiful blonde German muse walked into my life without any previous contact with her in 1992. We were both vegetarian artists until she returned...

Here are moviegoers who received The American King T-shirts during the Easter Weekend at the Exodus Cinemas in Makurdi, Benue State in NIgeria. Nollywood actors Nse Ikpe-Etim and Enyinna Nwigwe are among the top actors in the Hollywood and Nollywood comedy film “The American King” with the popular singer Akon. Written and directed by Adah Obekpa and co-produced by Joan McCarthy, the film follows the story of Sebastian, an ex-con dealing with some dangerous yet sensitive Russian gangsters to whom he owes money, who receives an unbelievable offer to escape it all from a mysterious High Priestess who seeks to fulfil a 400-year-old prophecy: choose an American to become King of an ancient African kingdom and restore it to the global superpower it once was.

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which had a high-profile sneak screening Monday evening at the 50th New York Film Festival, was greeted by sustained applause and an immediate burst of enthusiastic tweets. Based on my own evaluation of the film and its prospects, I expect it will be a sure shot for Academy Award nominations for best picture, best director and best actor for two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, playing America’s 16th president during the final months of his presidency as he fights for the passage of the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery . ~ Scott Feinberg in the Hollywood Reporter . Lincoln is a 2012 biographical war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.[3] The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln , and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life. Filming began Monda...